It is evident that a mind capable of such excursions and contemplations as I have now supposed, must experience enjoyments infinitely superior to those of the individual whose soul is enveloped in intellectual darkness. Were we to live a encouragement of him. He enumerates also officers in the British, French, Spanish, Danish and Dutch service, from whom he has received valuable and important information, most handsomely furnished; but from the Navy Department of the United States, to which, of all others, he had a right to look for aid and countenance, he received neither. This Mr. Blunt does not state; but surprised to find no allusion to that department in the course of his general acknowledgments in so many quarters, we asked an explanation, and it was as we state. and the pressure of which will not let them sleep glimpse of nature, and for something to look like have mounted with him on his chair and table, to beyond the range of the unassisted eye, and wander various talents are to display their differing attrac-||reparation he now can make, is to throw open the among suns and worlds dispersed throughout the tions. Some of the tales in this volume, which is prison doors of the Leads' of Venice (di tanti che boundless dimensions of space. He can fill up, in his imagination, those blanks which astronomy has prettily printed, have before appeared in print, and giaceamo!) to set free as many of the hundred, as never directly explored, and conceive thousands of are of thrilling interest. The Spanish Headsman" and to return the noble Confalonieri, Zucchi, and are still alive, whom Pellico left at San Michele; systems and ten thousands of worlds, beyond all was republished in this paper. It is quite a readable other Italian patriots, even now incarcerated at that is visible by the optic tube, stretching out to in- collection. finity on every hand,-new creations incessantly Spielberg, to their Italian home. It would redeem starting into existence--peopled with intelligences THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXVI, from which he to consider further, how great is the presump his character with the present and future ages, were of various orders, and all under the superintendence we extracted, some days ago, the article on Mr.tion which disinterested martyrs raise in favor of and government of the " King Eternal, Immortal, Rush's book, has several very good papers. and Invisible," whose power is omnipotent, and the At their persecuted cause. Is there none to teach him limits of his dominions past finding out. present we only notice that on the narrative of Silvio that a government which once puts itself at issue Pellico, & young Italian of genius and letters, impri- stakes its temporary safety on a collision where vicwith the rising intelligence and virtue of a nation soned for ten years by order of the Emperor of tory is disgrace? Is there nobody who can elevate Austria, for some political offence, in Lombardy-in him high enough to feel that a land which is the mo order to introduce the character drawn of that ther of such spirits, must be worthy of a better fate 7 THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT, 12th Edition, by trian subjects "the good Franz"--and the eloquent tant lands. While traversing the crisis of our Stu Emperor who is nevertheless called by his Aus- that we all are patriots for former ages and in die. It is so easy to be generous at the charge of others, EDMUND M. BLUNT.--For nearly forty years a single and glowing description of the influence upon a gen.art.struggle, none is now so base, but that he finde individual, unaided, if not indeed repulsed and check-erous mind of such a narrative as Pellico's. ed by that department of the general government himself in a jail with Hampden, pines away with most interested in the success of his labors, has car- bout them in a thraldom more degrading even than Had the sins of our fathers doomed us to be born in The minds of kings are often kept by those a- upon the scaffold with Russell and with Sydney?— Elliott in his prison chamber, and bows his neck ried or with constant improvements in each succes. the fetters of Spielberg. We spoil them, and then Italy, we often think what would have been our cou. Bive edition, the useful, elaborate, and expensive blame them for being spoiled. It is the curse of publication, named at the head of this notice. At take their humor for a warrant, but who studiously with her virtuous citizens, greatness to be attended by slaves, who not only tion and feeling, we range ourselves, side by side, rage and our fate. Here, also, at least in imagina. the end of this period, with a constitution broken by fence them in trom the discipline and emotions, in of good governmeut and of truth, we follow the exposure and fatigue, and with a fortune, as he him which every one else obtains his best security for men, who, looking forwards to the independence of Steadfast to the cause self expresses it, "literally cast upon the waters," virtue. When Pellico and Maroncelli were releas their country, and to the happiness of future geneMr. Edmund M. Blunt retires from the superinten. ly. They were taken by the commissary of Police, belonging to themselves. They failed! In the ed, they passed through Vienna on their way to Ita- rations, dared boldly to put to hazard all on earth dence of the work. In doing so,he expresses his warm who had them in charge, to the gardens at Schon acknowledgments to our shipmasters and others, brunn. The Emperor accidentally appeared. The their dungeons, what can we do but feel as if we wanderings of their exile, in the living sepulchre of whose "march is on the mountain wave," for their loyal servant inade them stand aside, lest his were reading our own story in the persons of better their wasted persons! Have Metternich and the has given us--instead of useful duties, interchanged Imperial master should be saddened at the sight of men? Instead of this beautiful world which God Aulic Chamber allowed him to be enlightened as affections, an enlarging sphere of brightening pros. well as saddened by the sight of these high minded pects-all the love, the promise, and the poetry of and deeply affecting Memoirs? Does he know the life--to what a crisis have they been called! Every been made the gaoler? Has he been enabled to thousand years, we should enter a prison walls with merit, the goodness, the piety, of which he has thing lost in one fatal moment. measure the full extent of the barbarous injuries of which God will one day make himself the avenger? Very altered feelings from those of a mere specta Are his dreams never haunted by the vision of the to, since we have kept company with Pellico. We clothes in their Moravian dungeon,-bent down by Mark, the glittering cupolas, and the Lagune. We scholars and gentlemen of Italy, working in prison peer down from the lattice.bars on the dome of St. chains under whose weight they are unable to walk, have clung with him to the grated windows for a sickening at the smell of food so uneatable that the the simile of God, while dawn was breaking over the assassination of a sunless atmosphere, and a slow brooded with him through ten long years of a soli. famished cannot taste it-fainting under the indirect Valley of Brunn upon his silent prayers. We have starvation-perishing from the heart's longings after tude so intense, that the step of the turnkey was a friends to whom they may never write, after parents pleasure, the whisper of a neighboring prisoner a MEMOIR OF ZERAH COLBURN, written by himself. supporting each other by manly and religious hopes tant dungeon, an event. froin whom and of whom they must never hear-blessing, and the sound of an Italian air from a disSpringfield: G. & C. MERRIAM. This is the dull against desperate temptations to self-destruction fluctuations of the hopes and fears in the spectral memoir of one, who, beginning as a prodigy, leaves the objects of silent and tremulous compassion to terrors of his nights, in the day dreams of his fami off as a person of very ordinary understanding. We even the low est ministers of abused justice, to all, ly affections: we thrilled with him at his glimpse of well remember the wonderful boy, and our own in- them? but to him, who alone had the power of relieving Gioja, at his chance embrace of Oroboni, and. above redulity almost, even after witnessing the results of his instinctive calculations, of the possibility of sons who pats children on the head when he meets hearts of kings and sycophants, yet vindicated its The Emperor is one of those amiable sort of per-which human nature, when cold and forsaken in the all, at his overflowing testimony to the nobleness with uch things. But infant Rosciuses, and boy calcula. them out a-walking, and who has established among rights, in a thousand other bosoms, to our confi. ors, seem reserved for the same mediocrity in mid. his Austrian subjects a reputation for good-nature, dence and love Streams of moral lustre and hea. le life. It is however remarkable, we think, that ambition has not been thought sufficiently personal most, where the monotony of selfishness, and the which the ordinary kingcraft of generalized political venly charity broke in, and lightened the darkness he pains taken in London and Paris, with Zerah to belie. There is a stupid constitutional good-na. servile drudgery of a long acquaintance with, and Colburn's education, by persons who hoped to mature ture which is no more meritorious than the good- ministry on the wretched, were most likely to have wonderful gift into some useful development, and nature of a drunken man. The individual horrors trodden out the germ of every tender feeling. The he varied intercourse he had with the world, should affair. The women of Vienna, who came round the Malta, of Angiola at Venice, and of Schiller in of Spielberg are a different, and we fear a personal characters of the dumb boy, and of Maddalene at ave left so little trace as this memoir indicates.carriages of Pellico and Maroncelli, told them to be Spielberg, belong to scenes, which, in honor of child. The calculating boy is now, we believe, a worthy of good cheer. Our Emperor is so good-he will hood, and of women, of the virtue which makes senti. inister, and settled in Vermont, his native State. 'never leave you long at Spielberg; we are sure nels and turnkeys a thousand times nobler than the THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Vol. II, No. member them at all, so much the worse for Franz.sent, we pray never to forget. 'our Franz will remember, you.' If Franz did re-sovereigns whom they have the misfortune to repre. for September. We have observed this periodi. Politics are of course excluded from so ticklish a Ifrom its commencement, and marked with increa. subject as the present volume, printed at the Turin g gratification the ability, taste, and excellent sion left upon its readers; that is, that the Emperor press. There can be, however, only one impresne of its articles. Its aim obviously is to shine does not want to read it to become acquainted with Another packet ship bound to Natchez, (the New. d not to glitter; to impress its readers by the soli. the worst part of its contents. The positiveness of ark, Captain Brewer,) went to sea from this port on Ey and sterling value of its conten's, more than by were frightened from the commonest acts of huma. from 3 to 400.000 dollars. the regulations by which the officers on the spot Thursday, with a cargo of merchandize valued at perficial brilliancy. There is a vein of true clas-nity, the constant reference to Vienna for the slight. sailed on the 7th inst. for the same port, had a The St, Louis, which cal literature running through its pages, which we est mitigations which might be required by the ne.cargo of still greater value for that flourishing marnfess recommends it very much to us; while it is cessities of a dying man, such as perinission to ket. ficiently diversified with lighter reading to make hear mass, or to have a leg cut off-special com. missioners sent down to report upon the condition of enerally acceptable. the prison-occasional direct messages from the TALES OF ROMANCE, first seris, by Tho's Moore, Emperor himself-all countenance the general be. s. S. C. Hall, Crofton Croker, C. Lamb, Miss lief that Spielberg wis kept as a kind of State Me. tford, and others. Philadelphia: KEY & BIDDLE. It the Emperor has a heart, this is a book to break cemetery. It is composed of a column of the Grecian nagerie which the Emperor personally superintended.manding site at the northern extremity of the city It stands upon a com This is a club book under a new title, wherein it. If he has a conscience, the best penance and Doric order elevated upon a pedestal and surmounted The publication will be continued as heretofore by the very capable sons of Mr. Blunt, who are emula. ting their father's skill and accuracy as Hydrographers. We have shared in all the SUMMARY. [From the Columbia Republican.] LIEUTENANT ALLEN'S MONUMENT.-This Monu. ment, which is now completed, was erected by the itizens of Hudson to the memory of their late fellow citizen, Lt. Wm. H. Allen. by a sepulchral urn. The pedestal is a square in its plan, placed upon an elevation of three steps and slightly tapering in a pyrimidal form as it rises, and terminates with a beautiful and bold capital-supporting a plinth from which rises the fluted column in all the beauty and grace of the classic architecture of ancient Greece. The whole is surmounted with a chaste and beautiful urn, and presents at once an object of simplicity and chastened elegance, alike honorable to the city and those engaged in its execution. It is built of the purest white marble, in a masterly style, by Mr. Cyrus Darling of this city, after a design by Mr. J. H. Dakin of New York. Its whole height is 20 feet. Upon the pannels of the pedestal the following words are inscribed: To the memory of WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, Lieutenant in the United States Navy, who was killed in the act of boarding a piratical vessel on the coast of Cuba near Matanzas, on the 9th of November, 1822, r. 32. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, His remains, first buried at Matanzas, were removed to this city by the U. States Government, and interred under the direction of the Common Council of this city, beneath this marble, erected to his honor by the citizens of his native place. 1833. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, was born in the city of Hudson, July 8th, 1790, appointed Midshipman in 1801, and a Lieutenant in 1811; Took a conspicuous part in the engagement between the Argus and Pelican in 1813, and was killed while in command of the United States Schooner Alligator. Pride of his country's banded chivalry, His fame the hope, his name their battle cry; He lived as Mothers wish their sons to live, He died as Fathers wish their sons to die. The President of the United States has recognized Paul Pierre Thomasson de Lamassee as Vice Con. sul of France at Savannah, Georgia, and Charles Knorre, Esq. as Vice Consul of the free city of Hamburgh, for the City of Boston, and the State of Massachusetts. Destructive Fire at Troy.-At 5 o'clock on Satur- ||respective full powers found in good and due form day evening, a fire broke out in South-street, in the have agreed to the following articles :— sash and blind factory of Prescot & Smith, originat. Article 1st.--His Majesty the King of the King ing from the furnace of the engine, which, with the dom of the two Sicilies, with a view to satisfy the buildings occupied by Smith & Gilbert, were laid in aforesaid reclamations for the depredations, seques. ashes. The loss of P. & S. is estimated at 5000 dol-trations, confiscations, and destruction of the vessels lars, on which the Troy Insurance Company had and cargoes of the merchants of the United States, 1600. The loss of E. & G. 10,000 dollars, and (and for every expense of every kind whatsoever 10,000 was insured, 5000 in the Rensselaer and Sar- incident to or growing out of the same) inflicted by atoga Company, and 5000 in the Albany Insurance Murat during the year 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812, Company. obliges himself to pay the sum of two millions one About 11 o'clock on Sunday evening, another fire hundred and fifteen thousand Neapolitan ducats to broke out in Franklin-square, in the stables in the the government of the United States; seven thourear of Dorlon's Washington Hall; and by 2 o'clock sand six hundred and seventy-nine ducats, part therethe four noble brick tenements on River-street, were of, to be applied to re-imburse the said Government laid in ruins. The wind at the time was a gale from for the expense incurred by it, in the transporta. the N. W. but by great exertions, the flames were tion of American seamen from the Kingdom of Naarrested at Mr. E. A. Sherman's building, which, ples, during the year 1810, and the residue to be however, was considerably damaged. Dorlon's loss distributed amongst the claimants by the said Go. is estimated at about 5000 dollars-insurance 2500.vernment of the United States in such manner, and The three other buildings owned by Townsend according to such rules as it may prescribe. M'Coun, were insured. The occupants, Silliman, Grant & Co. grocers and lumber merchants, lost considerable property, but were partly insured. E. & W. Carpenter, dry goods merchants, were insured 10,000 dollars, which probably covers their loss. The fourth tenement was occupied by Jared G. Bacon, draper and tailor, on the first floor-and the upper part by Kelly, as a boarding house. The amount of Mr. Bacon's loss is nearly 3000 dollars, insurance 2000. Mr Kelly's furniture mostly destroyed, no insurance. The owners of property in the building where the fire was stayed, were Mr E. A. Sherman, Mr. W. P. Haskin, and Messrs. T. & R. Mann, all of whom were insured. The amount of property destroyed by this conflagration is estimated at 25,000. The fire is supposed to have been communicated by incendiaries. } WASHINGTON, Department of State, 31st Aug. 1833. Notice is hereby given, that the Board of Commis. sioners appointed by the President to carry into effect the Convention between the United States and his Majesty, the King of the two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the fourteenth day of October, one thou. sand eight hundred and thirty-two, will meet in this city on Wednesday, the eighteenth day of September next, agreeably to the provision of the 3d Section of the Act of Congress of the 2d of March, 1833, enA public dinner, without distinction of party, was between the United States and his Majesty, the titled "An Act to carry into effect the Convention given to Governor Marcy, on Monday last, at Buffalo. King of the two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the MACON, GEORGIA, August 23d.-The first bale fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hun. of New Corton received in this place this season,dred and thirty-two." came in yesterday from the plantation of Mr John Harvey, in Houston County, and was purchased at auction by Messers. T. L. & J. P. Smith, at 20 1-2 cents. This bale was on its way to Savannah, by Capt. Blair's Boat, in a few hours after the purchase. We do not give the above as a fair quotation of the market price. But we can say to the planter, that if his cotton was now in market, the prices paid for it in Charleston would warrant from 14 to 15 cents here, at which price it is probable the market will open. Rum and Razors.-A countryman sent to his friend in the city for a barrel of rum, for family use --and received, in addition to the rum, a case of razors-with this significant remark in a letter-" One is slow and sure- -the other quick and certain.”— [Gazette.] By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. Convention between the Government of the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies, to terminate the reclamations of said government, for the depredations inflicted upon American Commerce by Murat, during the Shipwreck. The brig Pearl, Davis, hence for years 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812Franklin, La. with a full cargo of merchandize, was and His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the two The Government of the United States of America, driven ashore on Body's Island, North Carolina, in a Sicilies, desiring to terminate the reclamations adviolent gale, on the night of the 24th inst. We are vanced by said Government against his said Ma. informed by Mr. Birdsall, one of the passengers, who had returned to this city, that the vessel will esty, in order that the merchants of the Uniled probably be lost. A small part of the cargo will be States may be indemnified for the losses inflicted saved in a damage state. The cargo was principally upon them by Murat, by the depredations, seizures, insured in this city. Vessel owned in New Haven. confiscations and destruction of their vessels and Passengers and crew safe.-[Jour. Com.] Article 2d.-The sum of two millions one hun. dred and fifteen thousand Neapolitan ducats agreed on in article the 1st, shall be paid in Naples, in nine equal instalments of two hundred and thirty-five thousand ducats and with interest thereon, at the rate of four per centum per annum, to be calculated from the date of the interchange of the ratification of the Convention, until the whole sum shall be paid. The first instalment shall be payable twelve months after the exchange of the said ratifications, and the remaining instalments, with the interest, successively, one year after another. The said payments shall be made in Naples into the hands of such person as shall be duly authorized by the Government of the United States to receive the same. Article 3d.-The present Convention shall be ra tified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchan ed in this capital, in the space of eight months from this date, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the parties above named have re spectively subscribed these articles, and thereunt aflixed their seals. Done at Naples on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.. JOHN NELSON. [L.S.] And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Naples, on the thirty-three, by Auguste Davezac, on the part of the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and United States, and the Prince of Cassaro on the part of the King of the kingdom of the two Sicilies. Now therefore be it known, that I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be af fixed. IMPORTANT LAW.-We republish the following law Its importance, however absurd it may be deemedand we certainly so deem it ourselves-requires that as much publicity as possible should be given to it, as it goes into effect on the 29th of October next. An act to prevent persons from transacting business under fictitious names-passed April 29, 1833. The People of the State of New York, represent ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. No person shall hereafter transact business in the name of a partner not interested in his firm, and where the designation and Company" or " Co." is used, it shall represent an actual partner cargoes, during the years 1809, 1810, 1811 and 1812, and his Sicilian Majesty desiring thereby to HARTFORD CON. AUG. 31.-The splendid new strengthen with the said government of the United Steamboat, New England, Capt. Waterman, arrived States and his aforesaid Majesty the King of the partners. at the wharf last evening, at about half past six Kingdom of the two Sicilies, have, with one accord, o'clock, having performed this, her first trip from resolved to come to an adjustinent; to effectuate of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deeme 2. Any person offending against the provisions New York to this city in twelve hours and a half-which they have respectively named and furnished guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine The New England is superior to any Boat that has with the necessary powers, viz. the said Govern. not exceeding one thousand dollars. ever appeared on the river, in size, convenience, el-ment of the United States. John Nelson, Esquire, a egance and speed. citizen of the said States, and their Charg d'Affaires Cincinnati, Aug. 22.-We learn by a gentleman near His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the who left Louisville on Tuesday, that the steamboats two Sicilies; and His Majesty His Excellency D. Reindeer, and Volant, were burnt, or had been Antonio Maria Statello Prince of Cassaro Marquis burning for five hours, when he left there. We un-of Spaccaforno Count Statello, &c. &c. &c., His derstand they were laying at Shippingport or Port said Majesty's Minister Secretary of State for For land. How they took fire we have not learned. leign Affairs, &c. &c. who after the exchange of their §3. This act shall be published by the Secretary of State immediately, and shall not take effect unti six months after its passage. State of New York, Secretary's Office. This bill having been approved and signed by th Governor of this State on the 29th of April, 1833, do hereby certify that the same became a law on thi date. Joits A. Dix, Secretary. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. express: |nal de Frankfort, which we received to-day by the action of the fire, of which a thousand tongues, of all colors, pierced through the hatches, and as: The packet ship United States, from Liverpool, It is with deep indignation that we learn, by let-cended encircling along the masts and yards. That brings us London papers to and of the 7th ult. Listers from the Russian frontiers, that another attempt vessel which a few hours before, lorded it royally in Emperor Nicholas, which happily was discovered a hundred human beings, full of life and strength, on at assassination has been made on the person of the the harbor of Aboukir, and presented more than five short time before the day appointed for its execution. its deck, was deserted, and all those that had not We received at the same time a letter from Wis.|been wounded by the bullets of the enemy, hastened baden, of the date of the 30th of July, which con- to escape from certain death, by throwing themselves tains the following particulars :in the sea, and gained the shore by swimming. A Some strangers, who have recently arrived at single man yet stood there, his arms crossed on his Frankfort from the North, are uncertain whether the broad chest. His features soiled with blood, black Emperor Nicholas will go to Germany. According||with powder and smoke, he looked with saddened eyes on another man still breathing, lying at his feet; having both his legs carried away, and losing both his blood and his life, without uttering a complaint. He thanked God, on the contrary, for having taken him from this world. His dying eyes were raised to look on the flag of republican France. A few steps distant from the dying man, was a young boy of about fourteen, dressed in blue, and without any mark of distinction. A small sword was by his side, and in his sailor belt were two pistols. He looked at the dying man with an expression of profound despair, LATER FROM NEW GRENADA.-By the brig Eliza- but at the same me with a resignation which indibeth, Capt. Briggs, arrived last night from Carthage-cated that he too had done with life. That vessel na, we received on official account signed by the Go-wás L'Orient-the dying man was Casabianca, com. vernor of that place, stating that he had received in- manding the Admiral vessel on the expedition to formation of the discovery by the President of a Egypt, and the young boy was the son of the veteran conspiracy at Bogota on the night of the 23d July. chief. Measures were immediately taken by him to arrest those concerned in it. Colonel Jose Manuel Montoya, military chief of the provinoe, was ordered to apprehend an individual named Arjona, whose previous conduct had given cause to suspect him. While conducting Arjona to prison, Montoya was assassinated by him in the street.His accompliees, sixty in number, thinking their My son,' said the dying father, casting a look on plans discovered, that night fled from the capi-that noble child-a look, filled with all the joy that tal on the road to Tunja. They were, however, can animate the heart of a father- my son, I com. all made prisoners by the Governor of that place, mand you to go! with the exception of five individuals, on the 26th. Among the number was the above named Arjona. And order was again restored. bon fell into the hands of Donna Maria's troops on the Miguel, it was surmised, would endeavour to cscape to England. Other accounts are that he was off for Spain. At any rate he was non-apparent. We give the following very characteristic extract of a letter from Mr. George Fitch, Lieutenant of the late schooner Eugenie, dated River Tagus, July 25: "I write this on board what was formerly Don Miguel's yacht. I took her yesterday with this single arm and a musket and bayonet. MISCELLANY. 'Save that child" said the Captain to the Quarter. Master-save yourselves, both of you. There is yet time. Leave the old sailor to die by himself. He is now no more than a damaged old cartridge." 'Advance not!' said the Midshipman, waving his hand towards him; save yourself. For me, my place is here; I will not leave my father.' At that moment a fearful crash was heard among "A mob of 30 people released me from the inferthe planks of the vessel. The flames gained the nal prison where I have been confined, with little mastery-a horrible explosion announced the fate of food, for the last month. When I got into the street Capt. Briggs states that a misunderstanding had the victim of that dreadful day, that of the L'Orient. the people carried me on their shoulders, and want- arisen between one of the authorities of Carthagena Already the planks were burning under their feet. ed me to head them, which I did; their numbers and the French Consul, M. Barrot, who was in con- The Quarter-Master for one moment felt an emotion were small, but I soon increased them by releasing sequence confined in prison, but his liberation was of fear. His eyes glanced towards the shore, scarce. all the prisoners. I then armed with broomsticks momentarily expected. A French schooner of warly two hundred fathoms off, for, (said the Empe. those who could get nothing better. I had myself a was in the harbor on the point of sailing for Martin-ror) Admiral Brueys, the wretched man fought beautiful weapon, a crow.bar. We flew like fire,ique, with the ratification of a treaty of commerce where he was embayed-that emotion, so natu. shouting Vive Donna Maria,' through the streets which had been concluded between New Grenada and ral to every man anxious to preserve life, was to Fort St. John, mounting 12 large guns. I killed France.-[Journal of Commerce.] but transient. He resumed his indifferent attitude, the sentinel, and we forced the gates and took pos. only his eye twinkled as he looked at the young boy; session of the battery. I then felt like a god. I and upon a sign from the dying father, he again at had 500 men at my command ready to shed the blood tempted to force him away; but the youth present. of tyranny. We loaded the guns, forced the arse. nal and found 3,000 stand of arms, all new. There The Duchess of Abrantes, in her Memoirs, speaking one of his pistols, threatened to lay him dead at his feet if he persisted. were many soldiers in the mob. I ordered them to ing of the attachment of Napoleon to the young and form, and get into marching order, which they did, promising son of his brother Louis, introduces upon and I served out ball cartridge. We gave the command of the fort to an old officer, and telling him one occasion the Emperor as telling the young prince to keep a good look out, I marched through Lis. his nephew the following story. It is a new version bon with my army, and a band of music playing of an affecting catastrophe, familiar to all our readers the Constitutional Hymn. The English Admiral through the beautiful lines of Mrs. Hemans, on the fired a grand salute to our flag. The troops from death of young Casabianca, and is translated for our the Algarves arrived on the opposite side of the river the day before the revolution, and had a very smart columns by literally one of our "most youthful action, The Duke of Terceira came over yesterday || readers." at 2 o'clock, with 1,000 troops, and took possession of the city; he knew me the moment he saw me, and shook hands with me." LONDON, AUGUST 6.-City, half past four, the city never was in such a state of excitement, as at present. Government has just issued a notice for vessels to act as tenders for three months certain. An order has just been posted at Lloyd's, for two transports to be got ready immediately, to convey troops (it is said 3000) to Portugal, as it is supposed. It is said that Spain has sent forces to assist the Miguel ite cause. [FOR THE NRW.YORK AMERICAN.] CASABIANCA. I should, and will remain,' he exelaimed. 'Save yourself, and may Heaven preserve you—you have no time to lose.' Another crash, which burst from the bottom of the hold like a profound groan, made the sailor shudder. His eye turned to the magazine: the flames were on the point of reaching it. A few minutes more, and it would be too late. The youth felt all that that look implied, and throwing himself down by the side of his father, he encircled him in his arms-' Go,' he cried to the Quarter-Master. Father, bless me.' These were the last words the sailor heard. He sprang into the sea, and stretched for the shore; but he had not made many strokes before the L'Orient blew up with a fearful explosion. He was still so near that he was covered by the nails and fragments torn from the ship in her last agony. He was taken up by the people on shore, was conveyed to headquarters, and, added the Emperor, it was he that told us of the sublime devotedness of the young Casabianca. What should I do in the world,' said he, when his fatker again pressed him to go. You are dying-the navy is dishonored.' · Mr. Editor-If the enclosed, translated by one of your most youthful readers, be deemed worthy of a place in your valuable journal, it will gratify E. S. K. One day they were at St. Cloud, and the Emperor was telling a very interesting story, which he related with that power of voice and looks, which I have never seen, excepting in him. The young prince was at first seated on the knees of the Empress, but at length he slipped gently off, and came and placed In England, the bill removing the civil disabilities himself before the Emperor, looking full in his of the Jews was thrown out in the House of Lords-face with his large blue eyes, animated with an expression truly admirable-they were sparkling sapthough supported by Lord Bexley and the Lord phires. His little bosom heaved, and it was evident Chancellor-by a vote of 104 against 54 for the bill. that he suffered with his emotion. The Emperor was The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lon. relating a tale fitted to touch the heart of a child But it was a curious spectacle to remark the counhappily endowed. I have before noticed, I think, tenance of the young Napoleon-his large blue eyes *don, and the Clergy generally, (the Archbishop of the talent he had for story-telling, and the taste he fixed on the Emperor with an avidity which it is Dublin voted for it) the Duke of Wellington and displayed in it. He often, for example, altered a impossible to describe. And when his uncle had the whole Tory party opposed it-Lord Grey was little the truth, to increase the interest and effect. finished, he approached him, and getting on his knee, absent, and was understood as not wishing the bill But on that evening, it was noticed that nothing was he said to him-Is it true, what you have been say to be considered a government measure. added: it was so judged by his own emotion. He reing? What do you wish to know for? Because I A dreadful account is given in the papers, which lated a naval battle, and, like Homer, he raised his will pray to God for that young boy and his father, we have not room to publish. of the destruction by fire voice above the waves: he made the cannon roar, answered the young Prince. It was a noble boy, pursued the Emperor. His death is the more to be regretted, as possibly he might have surpassed the Duguay Thouins, and the Duquesnes. I always remember with pride that he was of my family. of the Hibernia, bound to Van Dieman's Land, with and the dying groan. He placed you upon the deck The Emperor was touched. He raised his nephew. 232 passengers, of whom only 63 were saved. of a vessel, the planks of which, stained with blood, and embraced him. And you, too, said he, you will PARIS, AUG. 3.-The following appears in the Jour."and covered with bodies, began to complain under" be a brave and a good boy. Face of the Country West of the Rocky Mountains. One immense priarie extends from the moun. tains, with the exception of scattering trees, of the pinus genus, (mostly of the mountains,) to the Falls of the Columbia. Along the streams are willows, and oft n rank grass, but as you recede from them, a thin crop of rank grass and shrubbery succeeds, and the soil generally becomes barren. At the Falls commences a growth of oak, and at tide water, a thick growth of lofty trees of different kinds; still the prevailing character of the country is prairie un. til you get nigh the coast, where the growth of ve. getables of all kinds is enormous. which surrounds us. A moment's reflection on these facts proves to us, that our body is formed with a just correspondence to all these external influences.--[Sir C. Bell's Bridgewater Treatise on the Hand.] I The Troy Press is publishing a series of letters also far inland, they have several posts. In short, traditions, language, and occupance of the different from Mr. Ball, a gentleman who formed one of the their operations-trapping and trading for furs, are races at the present day. Sir William Jones found extended from California to the Pole. You are only three great original languages to exist-Arabic, party that crossed the continent a year or two eince, doubtless aware of the long standing of this company Sclavonic, and Sanscrit; and these three all issue for the purpose of settling on the shores of the Pa-its great wealth and extended operations over atrom one point, Central Asia, whence, by consent cific. We make a few extracts: region of country but little known to any but them. of the most ancient records and traditions of the selves. great primeval nations, their original ancestors The gentlemen of the campany appear generally spread.-[Howi t'a History of Priesterait.] intelligent, especially Mr. McLaughlin, who is the acting Governor. Governor Simpson himself is at Man's Body a Machine.-Now grant that man's present at Hudson's Bay. There is also residing body is a machine, where are the points of resist. here a Mr. Douglass, a naturalist; but apprehending ance? are they not in the ground he stands upon ? they might be a little jealous of imparting their hard This leads us to inquire by what property we stand. earned intelligence about this region of country, IIs it by the weight of the body, or, in other words, have not felt myself free to make many inquiries. is it by the attraction of the earth? The terms at. It is seven years since they commenced an estab. traction, or gravitation, lead at once to the philoso. lishment here, and having found it very expensive to phy of the question. We stand because the body furnish the number of persons they employ with has weight, and a resistance. in proportion to the provisions from England, or elsewhere, they have matter of the animal frame, and the magnitude of been induced to go quite extensively into agricul. the globe itself. We wait not at present to observe The Climate of Oregon.-Here the farmer has not rural pursuits. Mr. McLaughlin, having obtained a the adjustment of the strength of the frame, the reto labor half the summer and all the winter to pro-few cattle from California, has increased them to sistance of the bones, the elasticity of the joints, vide for his animals-he is not compelled to fence and plough and sow his seed in one or two short about 400. He raised the last year about 1200 and the power of the muscles to the weight of the bushels of wheat, barley, peas, Indian corn, potatoes, whole. Our attention is directed to the relations months-he ploughs, and his cattle graze the whole year. The settlers in this valley have already raised and garden vegetables. This year he is extending which the frame has to the earth we are placed upon. his operations. Fruit trees have been planted ; By such considerations we are led to con. one crop; which succeeded well. They have a few cattle, horses, and hogs, all of which are in good or. among the rest the vine and the peach. They have template the human body in its different relations. der, without any feeding through the winter. Asheep and hogs. Their horses they obtain from the The magnitude of the earth determines the strength though we are in the latitude of Montreal, the farm. Indians. The pursuit of agriculture seems to pros of our bones, and the power of our muscles; so ers have been ploughing since January, the vegeta. per well in their hands, though begun with difficul. must the depth of the atmosphere determine the conbles in the garden have remained uninjured through of whom came out here with Mr. Astor'e concern) vessels; the common act of breathing, the transpira ty. Mr. McLaughlin encouraged a few men (some duct of our fluids, and the resistance of our blood the winter. In favorable situations the grass is al. to settle on the Multnomah, where, as I said, I in.tion from the surfaces, must bear relation to the ready springing up. On the Wallameth, I saw two weeks ago, alders and willows in bloomn, and leaving tend also to settle. He has liberally engaged to weight, moisture, and temperature of the medium out. Strawberries and brier bushes had continued lend me a plough, an axe, oxen, cow, &c. green through the winter. Crops that are put in the Probable Diffusion of Original Population.-Eve ground as late as July, yield a plentiful harvest. There is a vast difference in the temperature on they system of heathen mythology had its origin in the two sides of the Continent. Here the summers are sion at Babel. There the whole family of man was corruption of patriarchial worship before the disper long and fine, and everything can be raised, that can collected in the descendants of Noah's three sons, Love of Life.-There is an indescribable some. be raised with you, or even in Virginia. I have already spoken of the vine and the peach: tobacco has Shem, Ham, and Japhet; and thence, at that time. thing that ties us to life, Fr this purpose it is not they were scattered abroad by the hand of God, over necessary that we should be happy. Though our also been tried, and with success. During November, Fahrenheit ranged at from 49° the world. Japhet colonized the whole of Europe; life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent all those rorthern regions called Tartary and Sibe- to part with it. Without going to the extreme of to 56°. One half of that month was as bright wearia; and, in process of time, by the easy passage of Maecenas, who said, though my hand, my foo:, ther as any I ever saw; during that time there was Behring's Straits, the entire continent of America. 'my hip, should refuse to do their functions, though usually a white frost every night. I am informed His son Gomer seems clearly to have been the father should have a mountain on my back, and my teeth there fell that month 4 1-2 inches rain. In Decem- of those who were originally called Gomerians; and be loosed in their sockets, nay, nail me, if you will, ber 9 inches; frost but two or three times; thermo. meter in the morning at 40° at noon from 40 to 50°; by slight variations, were afterwards termed Coma. upon a cross, still I desire to live:" without this, rain from the S. and S. E. East and north winds rians, Cimmerians, Cymbri, Cumbri, Cambri, and there is nevertheless a sentiment that stirs within us, Umbri; and, in later years, Celts, Gauls, and Gaels. that produces an undefinable aversion to the thought always bring fair weather. Half of the month of Ja. These extended themselves over the regions north of ceasing to be, "to lie in cold oblivion and to rot." auary the weather was as cold as has been known of Armenia and Bactriana; thence over nearly all It was this that inspired Robinson Crusoe, or who. in this region, there being a constant frost. At one Europe, and first planted Britain and Ireland. Mas ever was his actual prototype, and every shipwreck. time the thermometer ranged as low as 17°; at noon from 30 to 40°. The Columbia river froze over, but 98, Tubal, and Mesech, as we learn from Ezekiel, ed mariner, when he has found himself thrown on a dwelt far to the north of Judea, and became the an. coast without human inhabitants. It is a dreary the Wallameth did not. During the rest of January, the weather was as usual; there fell but one inch of cestors of the Sclavonic or Sarmatian families; the thing to be cut off from the society of fellows and name of Magog still existing under the appellations the accominodations of civilized life. We should rain. This month (February) has been cloudy part of Mogli, Monguls, and Mongolians; those of Tubal almost expect an individual so circumstanced, to of the time. There have been what you would call and Mesech, in Tobolski, Moschici, and Moscow climb a neighboring promontory, and cast himself April showers, but the amount of rain that has fallen and Moscovites: Madai was father of the Medes, back into the element from which he had been res. is not great. We have had frost a few times, though and Javan of the original inhabitants of Greece, cued. But it is not so. He looks round, and begins in the morning the thermometer has usually stood at where we may trace the names of his sons Elishah, to collect the fragments and broken planks of the 40°, and at noon at 50°. Nigh the ocean, it is said, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim, in Elis, Tarsus, vessel in which he had been embarked. He is like Cittium, and Dodona. The posterity of Shem were the wretch who watches a dying flame. He gathers confined to Southern Asia; founding by his sons together every combustible material that offers it. Elam, or Persia, Ashur, or Assyria, a province of self to his view, that he may detain the celestial vi. Iran, or Great Assyrian empire of Nimrod, whose siter. He casts about and considers how he may son Cush appears to have subdued these descendants supply himself with nourishment and shelter. He of Shem. Arphaxad became the father of the He. meditates perseveringly, and counts up all his re brews and other kindred nations; his descendant sources. He shrinks from no labor. He is appalled Peleg founded Babylonia; and Joktan, stretching by no privations. Life, life is the inexplicable thing far towards the east, probably became the father of we cling to; and however we may pretend to hold the Hindoos. Ophir, one of the sons of Joktan, is it cheap and to brave death when at a distance, we often mentioned in the Scripture as dwelling in a all of us, with very few exceptions, and those aris. The valley of the Multnomah may be two hundred land of gold, to which voyages were made by shipsing from a preternatural tension, verify the apoph. miles in length and fifty in breadth, and a beautiful issuing from the Red Sea, and sailing eastward; but thegm of the Scripture, Skin for skin, yea, all valley it appears from what I have seen of it. Ex. Elam and Cush occupied the whole sea coast of Per. that a man hath will he give for his life." The mind tensive plains well clothed with grass, interspersed sia, as far as the Indus. This, therefore, brings us of inan bends itself after a short struggle to the yoke throughout with oaks crowned with missletoe and to the great peninsula of Hindostan for the seat of of necessity. Things without all remedy," are lofty firs and pines, altogether presenting great facili. Ophir. Lud, the fourth son of Shem, is presumed found to be without regard." We shut ourselves tion for settlers. The soil is generally tertile, though to be the founder of Lydia; and Aram, the fifth, up within the compass of possibilities, and become perhaps not equal to some on the Mississippi and the father of Mesopotamia and Syrin. Ham was at reconciled to what cannot be avoided. There are Ohio. Its quality however, I should think, through first mixed with Shem throughout Southern Asia, indulgences without which a man thinks he cannot the whole of it, will average with respect to fertility and became the sole occupant of Africa. Of his live; there are benefits that seem to constitute the and the aspect of its surface, the lands of Newsons, Cush became the founder of Iran, or Central core and soul of our existence; but, when these can England. Asia, the great Assyrian empire, and the progeni.no longer be had, we make the best of what is still tor of all those called Cushim, Cushas, Cuths, Goths, within our reach.-[Godwin's Delorain.] Scy he, Scots, or Gauls. Mizrain peopled Egypt;| White Residents.--Fort Van Couver is the general Phut, the western frontier of Egypt, and thence Sensibility of the Skin.-The fuller the consider. depot of the Hudson's Bay Company, West of the passing west and south, spread over the greater part ation which we give to this subject, the more con. mountains. An express arrives and departs from of Africa; and Canaan, it is well known, peopled vincing are the proofs that the painful sensibility of this place once a year, for Hudson's Bay, and a co the tract a terwards inhabited by the Israelites.the skin is a benevolent provision, making us alive for Montreal. A ship arrives annually from England. Thus, it is said, was the world peopled; and that to those injuries which, but for this quality of the Besides, they have three smaller vessels employed it was thus peopled, we learn not only from Moses, nervous system, would bruise and destroy the intern in trading along the coast, and in carrying supplies but from profane writers; and find both accountsal and vital parts. In pursuing the inquiry, we learn to the posts. To the north, along the coast, and confirmed by abundent evidence in the manners," with much interest that when the bones, joints, and it never freezes. Valley of the Multnomah. This week I have returned from an excursion up the River Multnomah or Wallameth. It is far from the stream laid down on your maps, for its most distant source is not probably more than 200 miles in a direct course from its mouth. Its general course is South and is fed by a number of branches from the Snow Mountains al ready spoken of, and a ridge running not far from the coast on the West. The river at one point approaches within fify or sixty miles of the sea. Wherein then, do you ask, consists its advantages -I answer in climate. STEPHENSON, No 264 Elizabeth street, near Bleecker street, RAILROAD CAR WHEELS AND BOXES, AND OTHER RAILROAD CASTINGS. Alan. AXLES furnished and fitted to wheels complete, at the Jefferson Cotton and Wool Machine Factory and Fountry. Person, N. I. All orders addressed to the subscribers Paterson, or 60 Wall street, New York, will be promptly attended to. Also, CAR SPRINGS 38 ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR. 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Premiums, consisting of Diplomas, or Medala, will be award.of the Compasses not one has required any repairs within the ed, as usual, for suchfarticles of American prouction, as skallast twelve months, except from the occasional imperfection o be adjudged superior either in material or workmanship. As a new impetus seems to have been lately given to American Industry, it is confidently expecte 1 that the Fair announced! for October neat, will present all more decisive evidence o the advancing condition of our agriculture, our manufactures, and the arts, than any of thore which have preceded it. Such ingenious and u eful machinery as may be conveniently transported, and put in operation, will give interest ad spirit so the occasion. Each article should be labelled with the naine of the manufacturer, or producer, and with the agent's name, and number, In this city. The design is to inform buyers where they can supply hem selves with the best articles. In this way, by means of 'orinel Fairs, many excellent workmen have become better known and have obtained permanent and profitable customers, who, whi e they have been better served, have at the same time wared and simulated American skill am! industry, Articles entered for premiums must be delivered as early as Monday, the 14th of October. More particular notices wil! be published previous to the Fair. For any other information which may be desired, apply to either of the Managers, in person or by letter. ▲ screw, or from acci ents, to which all Instruments are liable I can with confidence recommend them as being worthy the I have examined with care several Engineers' instruments These instruments seemed to ne to possess all the modern WILLIAM HOWARD. U. 8. Civil Engineer. To Messrs Ewin and Heartte-As you have asked me to give A23 113 og RJ The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in hir profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of construction and workmanahip to any imported or maiufdem ured in the United States; several 1 which are ent rely new Among which are an Improved Compass, with a Te escope biached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use of the needle, with perfect acuracy-also, a Railroad Goniom tr, with two Telesco—and a Levelling Instrument, with a Goniometer attached, particularly a apted to Railroad purpo WM. J YOUNG, Mathematical Instrument Maker, No. 9 Dock street, Philadelphia. In reply to thy Inquiries respecting the instruments markfactured by thee, now in use on the Ba timore and Ohio Railroad. I heerfully furnish thee with the following information. the whole number of Leve's now in possession of the depart ment of construction of thy make is arven. The whole nuaber of the Improved Compass" is eight. These are all eclusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gretuation Department. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have n fact needed but little repairs, except from acc dents to which all instruments of the kind are liable I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasseshave been preferred by my assistants generally, to any others in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other de cription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the ralls on this Road, This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing telescope, in place of the vane sights, leavea the engineer carcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of The Compass. It is indeed the mo t completely adapted to later al angles of any simple and chea. instrument that I have yet seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others now in u e for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, I think it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy trend, JAMES P. ETABLER, Superintendant of Construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. tai Philadephia, February, 1898. Hving for the last two years made constant use of Mr. Young's Patent Improved Compass,” I can safely say I be lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, How in uee, and as such most cheertully recommend it to F. zmeers and Burveyors. E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. and Germantown, February, 1833. For a year past I have used instruments made by Mr. W. J. Young, ofhiladelphia, in which he has combined the propor ties of a Theodolite with the common Level. NOVELTY WORKS, Near Dry Dock, New-York. THOMAS B. STILLMAN. Manufacturer of Stean Enginee, Boilere, Railroad and M Wrk. Lathes, Presses, and other Machinery. Also, Dr. Nott's Patent Tubular Boil. ars, which are warranted, for safety and economy, to be supe rior to any thing of the kind heretofore used. The fulles A number of other letters are in our possession and might but Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engl assurance is given that work shall be done weli, and ob rea- Introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy to sonable terms. A share of public patronage is respectfully-ubmit them upon application, to any persons desirous of jerus solicited. ing the pumpe. 186 |